Ancient Greek-English Dictionary

ὑπέρκειμαι

-μι athematic Verb; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὑπέρκειμαι

Structure: ὑπερ (Prefix) + κεί (Stem) + μαι (Ending)

Sense

  1. to lie or be situate above
  2. to be postponed

Conjugation

Present tense

Future tense

Imperfect tense

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • τὰ δὲ περὶ τὸν λιμένα τείχη καὶ πᾶσ ὁ τῆσ πόλεωσ ὑπερκείμενοσ τόποσ ἔγεμε σωμάτων· (Diodorus Siculus, Library, book xiii, chapter 13 16:1)
  • τῆσ γοῦν Τερμησσέων ἄκρασ ὁ ὑπερκείμενοσ λόφοσ καλεῖται Σόλυμοσ, καὶ αὐτοὶ δὲ οἱ Τερμησσεῖσ Σόλυμοι καλοῦνται. (Strabo, Geography, Book 13, chapter 4 28:2)
  • ἐκαλεῖτο γὰρ Λεπρὴ μὲν ἀκτὴ ὁ πρηὼν ὁ ὑπερκείμενοσ τῆσ νῦν πόλεωσ, ἔχων μέροσ τοῦ τείχουσ αὐτῆσ· (Strabo, Geography, Book 14, chapter 1 5:6)

Synonyms

  1. to lie or be situate above

Derived

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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